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I was disappointed to read the June 6 editorial in The Greenville News opposing the carbon legislation now pending in Congress .

COLUMBIA - The Senate's leader said Wednesday that Gov. Mark Sanford had lost the support of the people, and his most trusted friend in the Legislature signaled he might ask Sanford to leave office, clear signs that the governor is facing intense pressure to resign.

Sens. Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham and Rep. Gresham Barrett discuss Sanford's ability to carry out his job.

Rep. Bob Inglis, an upstate South Carolina Republican, put it this way to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal's Jason Spencer: On Sanford's ability to govern while dealing with a personal crisis: "I don't think that's a problem.

Hit a man with a fish, and he'll have a headache for a day. Teach him to hit himself with a fish, and he'll have headaches all his life! Navigation Syndicate Submitted by Sisyphus on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 1:26pm. One could look on with befuddled amusement to Congressman Bob Ingles' hypocritical suggestion that the Republican Party a oelose the stinking ...

The bombshell revelation that South Carolina governor Mark Sanford had disappeared to Argentina for a rendezvous with an extramarital romantic interest has failed to elicit calls fro the governor's resignation from the state's top officials-in part due to Bauer's politics, though another factor may also be at work: rumors that the state's ...

Some local political leaders said Gov. Mark Sanford should resign because he can no longer be effective following his tearful confession on live television of an extramarital affair.

While Mark Sanford works to salvage his marriage, Republicans are facing the prospect of a different kind of breakup: religious voters walking out on the GOP.

IT'S BEEN a tough couple of weeks for the Republican Party, what with two of their possible presidential prospects going all Elmer Gantry on them.

Some observers are predicting Gov. Mark Sanford's political career is over, but Republicans in South Carolina's congressional delegation expressed support for him Wednesday after he admitted having an affair.

Will the Mark Sanford affair, the latest in a string of GOP sex scandals, renew focus on the parts of the Gospel that preach humility? The Gospels are wielded by some religious conservatives as a club in the culture wars, but Scripture is more than a litany of condemnation.

Rep. Bob Inglis was one of President Clinton's harshest critics in the 1990s, an "impeachment 'manager' who attacked the moral failings of the president." However, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Inglis says that while he has since recognized that nobody's perfect, his party is still clinging to its "self-righteousness" : But with his ...

House Speaker Bobby Harrell 'Today's revelations are disturbing and shocking. There is no excuse for the unfortunate events that have transpired in recent days.

You know things are bad for God's Own Party when the arch-conservative and faithfully Republican Washington Times runs an article proclaiming "social conservatives fall from moral high ground." Declaring "Republicans retreat from values claims," the Times catalogued the damage done to the party of supposed "values voters" by an endless string of ...

Minutes after the press conference ended Wednesday at which Gov. Mark Sanford confessed to an affair, constituents of Sen.

Gov. Mark Sanford's Republican colleagues in Washington -- with one conspicuous exception -- offered their prayers and support Wednesday in response to his disclosure of a sexual affair with a woman in Argentina.

Just ask to see their fingers. If they look like pin cushions, that's a telltale sign.

Talking politics - 7th Circuit Solicitor Trey Gowdy speaks with Freddie Gault, treasurer of the Union County Republican Party, during a cookout at Foster Park on Saturday.

With Iran on a razor's edge after a week of swelling protests, the Obama administration has fended off pressure from both parties to respond more forcefully to the disputed election there.

While President Obama has been measured in his comments about the Iranian election, the House weighed in on Friday in support of the rights of protestors to challenge the election results and overwhelmingly adopted a resolution condemning the Iranian government for violence against the demonstrators.